Thursday, January 5, 2012

CLASSWORK:

0. Discuss creating an editorial process
1. Finish discussing "Why Don't We Complain?"
2. Review Multiple Choice answers from "Why Don't We Complain?"
3. Read and discuss "I Know What You Did Last Math Class" based on your response to the questions from last night
4. Share editorials
5. Read "Future Schlock"

HOMEWORK:


1. Read "The Dumbing of America".
  • Is technology really dumbing us down?
  • How would Thoreau respond to such an editorial?
  • What type of editorial is this?
  • Is this editorial rhetorically effective? Why or why not?

Beginning Your Editorial


Follow the instructions for creating a survey on Zoomerang. PLEASE keep the question limit to 5!
I know that it would be illogical for me to ask you to take 31 surveys in one night, so I am asking that you simply take as many as you can so that your classmates (and yourself) have enough information to use to create an accurate editorial.
Zoomerang Instructions